Word Meanings - THANAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• THANEDOM
  The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• THANE
  A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• THANESHIP
  The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.
• JURISDICTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• THANEHOOD
  The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.
• NITROMETHANE
  A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• METHANE
  A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series , a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness
• ETHANE
  A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.
• MALAMETHANE
  A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
• OXAMETHANE
  Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• URETHANE
  A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.
• HYDROXANTHANE
  A persulphocyanate.